Advanced Studies in Acting: Scene Study and Style

Questions of historical style, poetic stage language, and contemporary approaches to heightened realism and nonrealistic acting. A scene lab in which we investigate human embodied truth on a wide spectrum of scale, size, technique and play. Playwrights explored may include Shakespeare, Shaw, Lorca, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan Lori Parks, Naomi Izuka, Christopher Chen, Aishah Rahman, Maria Irene Fornes, Chuck Mee, Aleshea Harris, Caryl Churchill and Brandon Jacob Jenkins.